Yes, skunks can and do eat rattlesnakes, especially young snakes.
Yes, skunks can and do eat rattlesnakes, especially young snakes.
A variety of animals, including hawks, eagles, owls, roadrunners, foxes, coyotes, skunks all will kill and eat a rattlesnake, including the Arizona black rattlesnake.
Pigs, especially wild pigs, will kill and eat a rattlesnake.
Spotted skunks eat bird eggs, chickens, moles, mice, rats, ants, spiders, worms, lizards, voles, stink bugs, crickets, earthworms and beetles.
The mongoose typically has three serrated claws that would slash at the predator normally. The rattlesnake's tough skin reduces the strength of the blow, preventing these claws from penetrating the inner sanctum of the rattlesnake's oral pectum. The rattlesnake could retaliate by using his poisonous fangs and the spotted rattlesnake venom could kill a mongoose with 0.246 of a drop.
Skunks are carnivores. They kill and eat small animals and insects.
Skunks are carnivores. They kill and eat small animals and insects.
A rattlesnake could kill an animal the size of a horse or cow. However, it could not eat such a large animal. Its bite would be in self defense.
Hawks, eagles, roadrunners, weasels, raccoons, skunks, kingsnakes and a variety of other mammals and birds will eat rattlesnakes, especially young rattlers. Even tarantulas will eat young rattlers.
Pumas kill and eat deer, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, rabbits and skunks for a living
Yes, it would, but the rattlesnake has poison.
Deer are herbivores, meaning they only eat plants. Skunks are animals, not plants. So deer do not eat skunks.